Re: On prompt in shell mode

[Chong Yidong]

Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:

> The following regards Emacs (trunk) both on Linux and Cygwin.
>
> When I do: M-x shell, the prompt has garbage:
>
> ^[]0;~/downloads/cygwinports^G
> address@hidden ^[[33m~/downloads/cygwinports^[[0m
> $
>
> being
>
> echo PS1
> \[\e]0;address@hidden \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$
>
> I have found [1], for which 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on' should fix
> the thing. I have also tried defining PS1='PROMPT>' or PS1='address@hidden
> \w\n$ ' in .emacs_bash, but in all cases there is still garbage after
> M-x shell.
>
> So I would ask if you have a better solutions.

I'm unable to reproduce this; ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on works for me
with that exact prompt.